Re: gardening with children

**"Recycling Resource Service" r*@sympatico.ca**

Hello Nan. I have written 2 children's environmental books on composting.
'Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap' and 'Pee Wee's Great Adventure: A
guide to vermicomposting' if you are interested.  Retail at $3.95 and $4.95
respectively.
I also had an environmental club at my local public school.
I have created a compost word search too that I can fax to you.  Each child
could make a worm sock puppet with button eyes and then you could have fun
doing a play.  Everyone can bring an old socl.  Do you want the activities
to be garden/soil related? Larraine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nan Sterman" <nsterman@plantsoup.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] gardening with children


> >Does anyone have any stupendous suggestions for short (one hour or
> >less) projects to do with children, at-risk or otherwise? Or, can
> >you recommend great books, websites or ???
> >I've just gotten a job working with inner-city schools here in
> >Vancouver. Our first project is turning a gravel field into a
> >'natural' garden with native plants, berries, grapevines, trees,
> >berms, etc.
> >
> >Any input from garden writers would be much appreciated. Thank you, eh?
> >
>
> Hi Sharon!
>
>   I love the projects where you take a bale of hay and hollow out part
> of it, fill with soil and plant pumpkins or whatever.  Kids love
> doing it and I like it too.  Or, you can take a bag of potting soil,
> turn it on its side, cut a 8" X in it and poke some holes in the
> bottom.  Plant into the hole in teh bag and treat it as a big huge
> potted plant.  Put in whatever you want.
>
> Third idea, get a bunch of earthboxes.  I tried these for the first
> time this year and I am REALLY impressed.  Go to www.earthbox.com.
>
> I've been asked to do a class on gardening with children so I am also
> interested in ideas .
>
> Nan
>
>
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